...I have Ultimate Bulletin Board 6.0, Beta 7.8 and encoding always Western European (ISO) <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> , but I NEED Cyrillic (Windows) - charset=Windows-1251
OK! I always use meta tag <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1251">, but it is not working in UBB 6.0 beta7.* <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />
I'm experiencing the problem, which is the usage of ISO charset by UBB6 pages. It doesn't care for any meta charset codes, and the only way to set your own encoding is manual. I'm using following meta tag on my UBB6 (beta 7.9), which works just perfectly on UBB5 (5.47d): <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1251"> Please look into the problem. If it already been solved, please point out what's needed to be done to use custom charsets.
You never did post the URL to your board (exact URL to ultimatebb.cgi please <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> ), which could prove most helpful! <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Graeme, do you recieve reply from Navaho? I'm tired wait for his answer <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />
i have the same question. i Need to change to unicode using meta tag but it doesn't work: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
Navaho is working on it, and I'm completely stumped..
My guess is at this point, none of the alternate charsets are working, although that is purely speculation. It must have something to do with the exact placement of the META tag, but beyond that, I don't know..
Haven't forgotten you though.. <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> (I have this thread bookmarked just in case it slips down below the line for too long)
Your coding works ... even if they get gibberish just tell your members to go to view --> encoding and choose the Cyrillic Windows font ... I had the same problem with greek and this helped ... even if you have char in the Meta tags sometimes the browser won't pick it up and therefore you need to encode the page ...
Don Toni, <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1250"> is not working too <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Spirit_II, I don't want to choose the Cyrillic Windows font on every page of my UBB!!!
Graeme, waiting for next beta (or final?) with fix of this big problem <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Ultimate Bulletin Board 6.0, Beta 8.2 (Earthquake) is not fix the problem <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />
It still has to be changed manually the encoding. <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />
Note: to display correctly the language encoding must be the same when posting a topic or reading it. ie The language meta tag must be set at the input box as well.
<img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> Yes, runrabitrun, you are right <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />